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Harrogate Spring Flower Show

On Thursday I went on a trip to harrogate flower show, it was the 2nd show I’d been to, the other being gardeners world live. It was quite busy as it was opening day. I bought a few herb plants, garlic chives, kew red lavender, blackcurrant sage, swiss mint, grapefruit mint, lemon mint, wild rocket and catmint. I certainly filled up the herb patch now!!!

Anyway just a few pics of the displays and some gardens, my favourite is the one with the water wheel, however I think the garden with the decking will work best as a large garden.

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4 thoughts on “Harrogate Spring Flower Show”

I’m glad you had such a good time at Harrogate Anthony! That’s an interesting list of herbs you’ve got there, I thought I knew about all the mint varieties out there but I’ve never heard of Swiss Mint! Does it have a particular taste or smell? And black current sage is also new to me, could you post some pics please, I’m curious to see what they look like!

Will do Eva, actually will post allotment pics tomorrow, and will take the pics then while I’m there. I really wanted a mint collection down there so I made a mint border, so far i’ve got my swiss mint, ginger, lime, apple, spear, chocolate, lemon and grapefruit mints. Only a few left to go!!! The blackcurrant sage doesn’t really look like a sage, it was the fact that I like the ribena adverts and the dancing blackcurrants that made me buy it, not that i’ll get blackcurrants off it yet alone dancing ones!!

LOL – the next step in horticulture: dancing plants! Or before that let’s get them to water themselves and kick out the weeds… ;o)

Funny that we’re both growing a mint collection! I looked up your swiss mint and found that I actually have one too, but here it’s known as german (or krause) mint. I haven’t come across ginger mint yet, but I do have a strawberry one (or at least that’s what the plant label said).